-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/29/2007 12:43 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Steven Stern wrote: >> On 11/28/2007 11:13 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >>>> Steven Stern wrote: >>>>> I had installed Fedora on a dual-boot system using default partition, >>>>> where Windows had the first partitions on both drives, C and D. I've >>>>> removed the D partition to give that to Fedora. Although it looks like >>>>> the logical volume is 74GB larger, df is showing the same 143GB as before. >>>> So, you added the space to the logical volume. Did you then resize the >>>> filesystem inside that logical volume? >>>> >> That may be the part I'm missing. I was working through >> http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Expanding_Linux_Partitions_with_LVM#Extending_LVM_partition, >> I used lvextend, but I'm unable to unmount and remount the volume >> because it's mounted as /. >> >> The next step in the described process is to use ext2online, but that is >> not installed on my system. yum provides ext2online comes up empty. > > I think you you are looking for is: resize2fs > >>From its man page: > >> The resize2fs program will resize ext2 or ext3 file systems. It can be used to enlarge or shrink an unmounted file system located on >> device. If the filesystem is mounted, it can be used to expand the size of the mounted filesystem, assuming the kernel supports on- >> line resizing. (As of this writing, the Linux 2.6 kernel supports on-line resize for filesystems mounted using ext3 only.). > > Good Luck! > Thanks! Problem solved. # resize2fs /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 resize2fs 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007) Filesystem at /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required old desc_blocks = 10, new_desc_blocks = 14 Performing an on-line resize of /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 to 57171968 (4k) blocks. The filesystem on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 is now 57171968 blocks long. [root@sds-desk ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 212G 90G 111G 45% / - -- Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHTrQSeERILVgMyvARAon/AJ9okHgNuMgdcJxUsqxnF0S4YM9OKACfZvLx UcqE6uYcZSSKi1OHyVIGXB4= =tAzS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
